Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	let_v	life_n	14,740	5	4.9962	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96943	A Worthy example of a vertuous wife, who fed her father with her own milk: being condemned to be starved to death, and afterwards pardoned by the emperor. The tune is, Flying fame.		1661-1674 (1674)	Wing W3629E; ESTC R234159	2,101	1

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